Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-26
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DAKOTA NEWSPAPERS.
Opinions Upon Current Topics Edi.
torialIy Expressed by ferri-.
toriai Soaihes.

Caaton Advooste: 1t rs o about
definitely settled that the Illinois Central
people will build trora LsMars TO Yank-
ION eatly pexs season. Ihey are build
Ing the Sioux Falls line as rapidly as
possible, paying s. per day tor stone
snasons and $lT5 Tor common hands.
Ihe M%aniJoDa people also have q large
force at WORK Oh their Sioux Falls extern
sion aud will get their track into running
order III time to capture part of the
wheat crop OF 1887.
Meantime matters along the Jim Hill
system are bubbltng IA booming in q
lively manner. Marshall, MINI, people
Are vcly anxious to have the Manitoba
extension to Sioux City branch from off
that point, and claim that O depot site
has been fixed so as to make room for
the proposed Sioux City line. Albert
Lea, Mimi, business men are also
making an effort to induce the Manitoba
folks to look over the feasibility Of
running o line from Albert Lea TO Sioux
City. But the Brandon project, via
Canton, is the short line and by all odds
the line for Sioux City people.
Sioux Falls became a tribe anxious
over the ausplcious movement of the
Canton survey, and Messrs. Pettigrew
end Sherman at once proceeded 90 st.
Paul, where they had q conference with
Jim Hill. The latter gentleman assured
a committee that the road would be
completed into Sioux Falls, but. made no
expression as to where he expected to
CROSS the Missouri with his Denver line.
Sioux Falls people very naturally are
anxious to be located on the main line
and are dead against the Sioux City line.
They want the road to cross the Mis-
souri, at Yankton.
Bfjou Hills Times: Wherever Gen.
Hugh J. Campbell goes to make
speeches on division there is great en-
thueiasm, Ali recognize him as q leader
and IN indefatigable worker in that
carse. Gen. You can count on us fol
support for senator when Dakota gets
her rights.
Gettysburg Herald: The question OF
division is not o partisan one; all pc.
iitical parties are agreed upon the issue
aud prominent leaders in both parties
favcr the movement. 1t is not u sec
tional issue; the north as we'll as the
south is organizing for the fight, hold
ing conventions and meetings, in fact
some papers claim as large O proportion,
ate majority in the nor.aern counties
as in the southern. Neither is it 0
question having many able advocates or
the negative side, their arguments being
confined to o few stereotyped expressions
based on political cant and false pre-
tense. Probably no question. submitted
TO q popular vote will ever have beer
more unanimously accepted sInce Cali
fosnia voted upon the restriction OF
Chinese immigration.
Kimball Graphic: In ever one OF the
over crowded communities of the cas-
to-day are found scores of men who are
struggling for q mere pittanee-a bart
Ilving-Rnd who, although they are
thoroughly dissatisfied with their loi
and long to go west, have not the nerve
to shake OIL the imaginary ties that bint
them aud pull put for fresher and green.
or fields, That's where they miss it
They think each year that Elf times or,
no better next year j will go west'-bui
they'do not start. Why? Simply be
cause they have not the stamina to pull
out of the old ruts and grooves tina
they have run in since childhood
Foolish men. a year residence il
the west--in Dakota especial,
would cure al such notions and maxi
q better man Of each and every one o
them than they ever had before though
possible. Dakota is peopled to-day b,
hundreds upon hundreds-yes, thous'
ends upon thousands-of successful mel
whose chief regret every day of thsi
lives is that they did not pull out iron
the moss grown east sooner, and TO
every man that can be found who ha
not bettered himself by going to Dakot
there can be found one hundred VIII,
one year than they eve mRdesn the eas
In three.